Table 5.
Subgroup analysis comparing the younger patients with age of 8 years and under (22 patients) to older patients over the age of 8 years (62 patients)
| Assessment | Features | UTE mean scores |
p values | BH-SPGR mean scores |
p values | SPGR mean scores |
p values | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 8 | Over 8 | Under 8 | Over 8 | Under 8 | Over 8 | |||||
| Image quality | Perceived SNR | 3.4 | 3.8 | 0.0014 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 0.00001 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 0.00001 |
| Contrast | 2.9 | 3.3 | 0.0166 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 0.00001 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 0.00001 | |
| Artifacts | 2.8 | 3.6 | 0.00001 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 0.00001 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 0.0001 | |
| Blurring | 2.8 | 3.3 | 0.0001 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 0.00001 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 0.00001 | |
| Anatomic delineation | Appendix | 2.6 | 3.2 | 0.0003 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 0.00001 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 0.00001 |
| Small bowel | 2.6 | 3.2 | 0.0002 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 0.00001 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.0005 | |
| Colon | 3.0 | 3.7 | 0.00001 | 2.6 | 3.6 | 0.00001 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 0.0001 | |
| Bladder | 3.3 | 3.8 | 0.0013 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 0.0004 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 0.00001 | |
| Diagnostic confidence | 3.4 | 4.3 | 0.00001 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 0.00001 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 0.00001 | |
Italics denote statistical significance after a Bonferroni–Holm multiple comparisons correction